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Rocky Mount
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city in Edgecombe and Nash counties in the coastal plain region North Carolina, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- North Carolina
- Counties
- Edgecombe , Nash
- Founded
- March 22, 1816
- Incorporated
- February 19, 1867
- Named after
- Rocky mounds along the Tar River
- Type
- Council–Manager
- Mayor
- Sandy Roberson
- City manager
- Peter Varney
- City council
- Members Andre Knight Reuben C. Blackwell, IV Richard Joyner T.J. Walker Lige Daughtridge Tom Harris Jabaris D. Walker
- Total
- 44.89 sq mi (116.27 km )
- Land
- 44.68 sq mi (115.73 km )
- Water
- 0.21 sq mi (0.54 km ) 0.47%
- Elevation
- 85 ft (26 m)
- Estimate 2023
- 54,245
- Density
- 1,216.1/sq mi (469.55/km )
- Urban
- 63,297 (US: 432nd )
- Urban density
- 1,408/sq mi (543.6/km )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Rocky Mount
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Nash County
- Population
- 54341
- Area
- 113.96951
- Elevation
- 31
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Official website
- www.rockymountnc.gov
- Image
- The Imperial Centre for the Arts & Sciences ROCKY MOUNT NC.JPG
- Households
- 22475
- Dialing code
- 252
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- Commons category
- Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- topic's main category
- Category:Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- category for people born here
- Q18123103
- postal code
- 27815
- inception
- 1816-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Rocky Mount, North Carolina
- P8168
- 503
- water as percent of area
- 0.4912
- per capita income
- 24544
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Encyclopedic overview
Rocky Mount is a city in Nash and Edgecombe counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina. The city's population was 54,341 as of the 2020 census, making it the 20th-most populous city in North Carolina.
It is the principal city of the Rocky Mount metropolitan area—often called the "Twin Counties"—which had an estimated population of 145,383 in 2023. Rocky Mount is also an anchor city of the Rocky Mount-Wilson-Roanoke Rapids, NC Combined Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 288,366 in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rocky Mount” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.